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Fried Eggs

A dish of boiled eggs sliced and fried, and fried omelet pieces coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Fried Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the hard-boiled eggs

  1. Boil 6 eggs hard, then cut them into slices and fry them.

Make the omelet

  1. Beat 3 eggs with parsley, cibol, salt, and pepper.

  2. Cook the omelet mixture in a pan.

  3. Roll the cooked omelet tightly and cut into 6 pieces.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each piece in beaten eggs.

  2. Coat each dipped piece with bread crumbs.

  3. Fry the coated omelet pieces until golden brown.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Parsley + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set when cooked and bind the omelet and coating together.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust when fried.

The step that matters

Coat each dipped piece with bread crumbs. The beaten egg is the glue that holds the crumbs on. If pieces are not dipped evenly or are left wet, the crumbs fall off and the coating fries unevenly.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, parsley, pepper, bread):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, parsley, pepper, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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